Wieslaw Krawcewicz

Stabilization in a State-Dependent Model of Turning Processes

We consider a two-degree-of-freedom model for turning processes which involves a system of differential equations with state-dependent delay. Depending on process parameters (e.g., spindle speed, depth of cut) the cutting tool can exhibit unwanted vibrations, resulting in a nonsmooth surface of the workpiece. In this paper we propose a feedback law to stabilize the turning process for a large range of system parameters. The feedback law introduces a generic nonhyperbolic stationary point into the model, which generates the main technical challenge of this work. We establish the stability equivalence between the differential equations with state-dependent delay and a corresponding nonlinear system with the delay fixed at its stationary value. Then we show the stability of that nonlinear system with constant delay by computing its normal form. Finally, we obtain conditions on system parameters which guarantee the stability of the state-dependent delay model at the nonhyperbolic stationary point.

Global stability lobes of turning processes with state-dependent delay

We obtain global stability lobes of two models of turning processes with inherit nonsmoothness due to the presence of state-dependent delays. In the process, we transform the models with state-dependent delays into systems of differential equations with both discrete and distributed delays and develop a procedure to determine analytically the global stability regions with respect to parameters. We find that the spindle speed control strategy that we investigated in [SIAM J. Appl. Math., 72 (2012), pp. 1--24] can provide essential improvement on the stability of turning processes with state-dependent delay, and furthermore we show the existence of a proper subset of the stability region which is independent of system damping. Numerical simulations are presented to illustrate the general results.

Symmetries of nonlinear vibrations in tetrahedral molecular configurations

We study nonlinear vibrational modes of oscillations for tetrahedral configurations of particles. In the case of tetraphosphorus, the interaction of atoms is given by bond stretching and van der Waals forces. Using equivariant gradient degree, we present a full topological classification of the spatio-temporal symmetries of the periodic solutions. This procedure gives all the symmetries of the nonlinear vibrations for general force fields.

On the equivariant Hopf bifurcation in hysteretic networks of van der Pol oscillators

The standard approach to study symmetric Hopf bifurcation phenomenon is based on the usage of the equivariant singularity theory developed by M. Golubitsky et al. In this paper, we present the equivariant degree theory based method which is complementary to the equivariant singularity approach. Our method allows systematic study of symmetric Hopf bifurcation problems in non-smooth/non-generic equivariant settings. The exposition is focused on a network of eight identical van der Pol oscillators with hysteresis memory, which are coupled in a cube-like configuration leading to S4-equivariance. The hysteresis memory is the source of non-smoothness and of the presence of an infinite dimensional phase space without local linear structure. Symmetric properties and multiplicity of bifurcating branches of periodic solutions are discussed showing a direct link between the physical properties and the equivariant topology underlying this problem.